Who Says Money Isn’t A Good Gift? 

For most of us, crunching numbers (managing our money) is an essential part of the holiday season – just like yule logs, ball drops, and that “yummy?” fruit cake, although maybe not quite as joyous. On this 10th day of Kubernetes we’ll focus on the importance of cost-efficiency and getting the most value out of your Kubernetes investments.

Christmas Vacation Trivia

Holiday Quiz

In keeping with the theme of waste, in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, the Griswold family patriarch painstakingly affixes 250 strands of lights to house, with 100 individual bulbs per strand for a grand total of 25,000 imported Italian twinkle lights. About how much would the electricity cost him to keep them on for one month?

(Answer is at the bottom of this page)

  1. $2,800
  2. $3,000
  3. $3,300
  4. $4,900
  5. $5,500
  6. $7,500

A Jolly Good Return on Your Investment

This is usually an expensive time of year, and for most organizations worldwide it has been an expensive couple of years with unforeseen changes to navigate. 

We know how critical it is to manage your budgets wisely. And spending more than you need to on Kubernetes resources and cloud usage isn’t something to think about only during the holidays. That’s why StormForge has developed a Cloud-Efficiency ROI Calculator to quickly give you an idea about the potential value that our platform can bring to your organization in terms of tangible benefits and return-on-investment.

Try it today. We promise the savings will give you much more joy than that fruitcake!

Our customers have seen an average of:

82%

Less Time Spent on Troubleshooting

51%

Lower Cloud Costs

53%

Performance Improvement

60%

Reduction in Deployment Failures

Sign up for a FREE 15-day StormForge product trial during the 12 Days of Kubernetes and you’ll be entered into a drawing to win a $100 Amazon gift card!

“StormForge Optimize Live provides quick time to value. The ML engine is very strong and provides opportunities for many different customer use cases. Integration with multiple observability providers will be attractive to enterprise customers.”

GIGAOM RADAR FOR KUBERNETES RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS (2022)

Holiday Quiz Answer:

3. $3,300

(If he’d used LED bulbs it would only have cost him $38… StormForge – Like LED bulbs for your K8s resources)

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